Catherine Gammon

Catherine Gammon is author of the novels Isabel Out of the Rain, Sorrow, China Blue , and The Martyrs, The Lovers , and of the early story collection Beauty and the Beast . Her work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others, as well as by residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and Djerassi. After growing up in Los Angeles, Catherine lived in...See more

Catherine Gammon is author of the novels Isabel Out of the Rain, Sorrow, China Blue , and The Martyrs, The Lovers , and of the early story collection Beauty and the Beast . Her work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others, as well as by residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, and Djerassi. After growing up in Los Angeles, Catherine lived in Berkeley, and later in Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts before moving to New York, where she worked for The New York Review of Books . She left New York to join the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1992 and later returned to California for training and ordination at San Francisco Zen Center's Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm. She lives again in Pittsburgh, with a garden and a cat. See less